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Somali Pirates Hijack a Greek-owned cargo ship

Somali pirates hijack cargo ship with 22 crew members

clipped from liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com

Somali-based pirates have struck again.

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Israel Navy Intercepts Iranian Weapons en route to Hezbollah, 4 Nov 2009

The Israel Navy intercepted the "Francop" cargo ship, which was laden with roughly 500 tons of weapons hidden amongst civilian cargo. The 36 weapons containers were sent from Iran and meant for the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon. For further information on how the interception occurred and what was uncovered

By:idfnadesk

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Captured Iranian arms ship tip of the iceberg of vast weapons sealift to Hizballah

clipped from www2.debka.com

DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources report that a mammoth arms train has been running to Hizballah for months via Egypt. They identify the ship which offloaded the arms shipment at the Egyptian port of Damietta, where it was picked up by the Francop as the Iranian Visea, which is now on its way from the British port of Felixtowe to Hamburg, Germany. An international operation is afoot to apprehend the Iranian ship as of Wednesday, Nov. 4, when Israeli naval forces commandeered the Francop with hundreds of tons of Iranian arms bound for the Lebanese Hizballah near Cyprus. The arms were unloaded at the Israeli naval base at Ashdod port.